Based on my experience in working for companies and studying people at all levels, these are my top 5 keys to not losing your job.

1. You Need to Have Drive

If you were a car, what kind of car would you be, a 1962 Mini, a 1960 VW Kombi, a Mustang, or a Porsche? Although Minis and Kombis are cute and good for cruisin', to not lose your job, you need to become a Mustang or Porsche. It’s the people with drive, torque, and power and who work harder, achieve, come early, leave late, make the highest number of calls, sales, and complete projects on time who are most likely to keep their jobs.

Before you can set up and execute your plan, you need to know why might your employees not care about the business?

Jana Maneva's insight:

If you ever ask yourself why your employees don't care as much as you'd like them to, this would be an interesting reading for you. This new blog post from Reward Gateway Employee Engagement Blog will be a huge help to find the reasons for this problem and how to resolve the same. Here are some spotlights from this awesome piece of reading:

"1. Communication is not fast, flowing or honest.

2. Engagement is seen as a nice-to-have and initiatives never last.

3. Engagement isn't appropriately resourced or built a ground-up movement.

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Would you love to work in a place where you could truly be yourself? Where you didn’t have to spend a single moment of your time and energy making sure you put only your best self forward?

Most people would, according to research recently published by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones in “Creating the Best Workplace on Earth.” For three years they went around the world, asking hundreds of executives to describe the attributes of their ideal workplace. Topping the list was an environment where people could be themselves and where the company invested in developing them (and everyone they worked with) to be the very best they could be.

Our Founder & CEO Glenn Elliott, gave a presentation at one of our quarterly Global Business Updates where he shared actual stories of how employees had progressed over the previous five-year cycle, inspiring employees to see what their future at RG may hold.

Jana Maneva's insight:

Read what Reward Gateway did during a private equity deal.

Here are some spotlights:

- Managing talent, inspire your employees to see what their future at the company may hold.

- Share the information, make a comfortable medium for sharing the news with your employees.

We understand you want a single platform to communicate what’s important to your employees around the world. Available in any country, SmartHub® will become the glue that connects your organisation together.

Jana Maneva's insight:

If you want to drive your employee engagement with a single platform, available in 196 countries around the world, with complete control at your fingertips, intelligent scheduling to save you time, also with target messages at specific user groups, beautiful, responsive and simple to use on every device, then SmartHub® by Reward Gateway is what you need.

Here are a few holiday savings tips which we used over the years to engage our employees with our discount programme.

Jana Maneva's insight:

Ho, ho, ho! Christmas is coming. Gifts are inevitable at this time of the year. How can you help your employees to buy all gifts that they want to buy? Just remind them to your discount programme and offer them bigger discounts and great savings.

Follow these steps:

1. Double it up!

2. Let employees speak out.

3. Remind your employees to use cashback.

4. Remind your employees to use shopping cards.

5. Create wishlists.

"One of the best ways to engage your employees with your discount programme is to make it real for them, doing this by giving them very specific helpful tips."

"It’s great throughout the year, but invaluable during the holiday season!" - Debra Corey, Group Reward Director at Reward Gateway.

Recently I had a conversation with two coworkers of mine. The topic turned to #banbossy and #ShineStrong. In case you don’t know, #banbossy was started by Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg. The key message is, “Words like ‘bossy’ send a message: don’t raise your hand or speak up”, so we should avoid …

Jana Maneva's insight:

So interesting blog post from Robert Smith first researcher at Reward Gateway New York, responsible for staying up-to-date on the world of HR solutions, technologies and problems.

The summer months are here, so how about mixing in some fun at the office with gamification? While your staff members rotate taking longer vacation breaks, reward those employees who are still in the office by using gamification training to let them have some fun while learning new skills.

Using gamification in employee training has become an increasingly popular way to engage employees and train them in best practices. In fact, the Entertainment Software Association estimates that up to 70 percent of large employers use games and interactive software for training. By 2015, Gartner projects that 50 percent of corporate innovation will be gamified. If you’re looking for a better way to improve your customer service team’s skills, follow our tips below to craft a gamification strategy that your employees will enjoy and benefit from.

1. Focus on good design so that its easy to use and won't slow them down getting to learn it. 2. Use games to improve work quality, not efficiency. 3. Choose rewards that ignite teamwork, and not competition.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.

Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.